S.I.T.E. Project Gets National Attention

Posted on June 19, 2014

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TRI received great news from Mary Beth Tilson, Biology
teacher at Delta High School in Pasco, WA. She has been selected to present at
the Sustaining the Blue Planet Global Water Education Conference, taking place
June 24 – 27 in Big Sky Montana. Why is this important to TRI? Because the
student program that will be the centerpiece of her presentation was funded
through a sub-grant received from TRI as part of a larger U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
grant. The SITE projects had to meet standards for both effective environmental
education and service learning.

In her proposal for the presentation titled, Promoting student engagement in water
education with community members, Tilson wrote, “Some of the activities
included meeting and learning from local biologists, cleaning a creek,
collecting water quality data from the creek and analyzing how individuals and
businesses can affect the quality of the water near their businesses.

This session will focus on the following aspects of the
educational experience: 1) forming and sustaining community partnerships; 2)
ongoing project based learning; 3) real-world problem solving through
application of environmental standards and practice and 4) implementing field
work with high school sophomores.”

Click Here to see the final report from the Hip Deep Creek Project. It
is so exciting to see young people so engaged in learning.

Project S.I.T.E has just one more grant it can award to a
project that would need to be completed by the end of December, 2014. For more
information, check out the S.I.T.E. Project website,
or contact Bonnie Morihar at moriharb@wou.edu.